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- From: spader@statler.cs.mcgill.ca (Yoo-Shin LEE)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: double to high density diskette convert??
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.204253.26900@cs.mcgill.ca>
- Date: 11 Dec 92 20:42:53 GMT
- References: <1992Dec8.145201.61800@cc.usu.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.mcgill.ca (Netnews Administrator)
- Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- In article <1992Dec8.145201.61800@cc.usu.edu> slmdj@cc.usu.edu writes:
- > In article <wiegand.723248610@lido16>, wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert
- Wiegand) writes:
- > > dollbes@ucbeh.san.uc.edu writes:
- > >
- > >>Are bhigh density and double density essentially the same? Is it
- really
- > >>possible to punch and convert one to the other?
- > >
- > > Yes its possible, but no its not a good idea.
- > > The disks are not the same.
- > >
- > > --
- > >
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------
- ----
- > > Robert Wiegand - Motorola Inc.
- > > motcid!wiegand@uunet.uu.net uunet!motcid!wiegand
- > > Disclamer: I didn't do it - I was somewhere else at the time.
- >
- >
- > At our local comp. lab, they had one of those punch machines to convert
- DD to
- > HD... Alas, I had a significantly larger failure rate among the punched
- disks
- > than the normal DD _or_ HD diskettes. Punching not recommended, no
- matter what
- > the gurus say! :-)
- > --
- >
-
- I'd also like to know about programs such as FDformat which allow you
- to format for 2 mbs on a hd disk. Are they safe and reliable?
- I have a friend who used to always fdformat(2meg) his disks and use the
- double hole punch routine. His 1.44 meg drive is screwed now and doesn't
- copy reliably. I think it is because of his abuse of the above methods.
-
-
-
- anyways i don't do either.
-
- spader@cs.mcgill.ca
-